1. Harry’s companion tells him that they always stayed at what hotel in St. Germain?
(a) The Café Royal Hotel
(b) The Hôtel de Crillon
(c) The Pavillion Henri-Quatre
(d) The Hotel II Salviatino

2. Of what does the narrator say Harry had sold “in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money”?
(a) Poetry
(b) Vitality
(c) Cowardice
(d) Lies

3. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers riding all day through fields of what kinds of flowers?
(a) Poppies
(b) Roses
(c) Pansies
(d) Honeysuckle

4. One of Harry’s flashbacks describes a trip for Anatolia. On this trip, Harry remembers making an attack with the newly arrived officers from where?
(a) Peru
(b) North Korea
(c) Constantine
(d) Israel

5. Harry tells the woman in the beginning of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that he watched the way the vultures sailed carefully in case he ever wanted to do what?
(a) Use them in a sculpture
(b) Use them in a song
(c) Use them in a story
(d) Paint them in a picture

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?

2. Who argues with the Secretary about whether or not there is snow on the mountains in Harry’s flashback in the beginning of the story?

3. The author notes in the preface to the story that the frozen carcass of what animal lies close to the western summit of Kilimanjaro?

4. What does the word “skischule” translate to in English?

5. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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